Turn routine into ritual
‘It's helpful to have routines, because then you don’t have to pay attention, which saves you time and energy. But if you turn it into a ritual, then it makes it more meaningful,’ says Cassie Holmes.
‘One example is my weekly coffee date with my daughter, which we started to do on the day that I would drop her at preschool, before heading to my office.
‘I decided to turn that routine into a ritual. So now it has a name: it’s our coffee date. We listen to the same songs on the way to the coffee shop. When we get there, she gets her